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5 Personality types needed for innovation
Article 26/03/12 Innovation is a prerequisite for corporate growth, but can it be achieved with Hangers-On and Controllers? Forbes Insights’ recent study, “Nurturing Europe’s Spirit of Enterprise: Ho
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Video 24/10/11 Finally a woman on CCTV: Sonia Trocmé - le Page, co-founder and partner Global Private Equity is interviewed at the Capital Creation Conference in Monte-Carlo which was held from September 26th
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European Commission weighs options to break the ‛glass ceiling' for women on company boards
Article 15/03/12 A European Commission report published March 5th shows that limited progress towards increasing the number of women on company boards has been achieved one year after EU Justice Commissioner Viviane R
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In the spotlight: Stefania Usai, beleidsmedewerker NWO
Video 11/07/11 LEAP is about connecting and inspiring. Watch this film in which Stefania Usai shares her life motto with us! It will most certainly inspire you and make you proud of her courage to step forwar
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To Attract talent business culture should resonate emotional intelligence
Article 28/02/12 According to an article by Terry Murray people misinterpreted Darwin’s theory of evolution. It isn’t survival of the fittest, it is those that are most adaptive that survive. W
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New Leadership: The Values Film impression
Video 14/06/11 For those of you who were there: a nice souvenir. For those of you who missed it: get a taste of what happened and who was there.
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Corporate talent programs fall short
Article 06/02/12 Despite a new wave of uncertainty, many leading companies are pressing forward and reshaping their talent strategies. Many executives foresee leadership shortages in the year ahead and are looking at
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Article 30/01/12 How can women break through and reach the boardrooms? The book Break Your Own Rules reveals what it really takes for any woman to succeed at the highest levels. By distilling six faulty assumptions mo
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What to do if you are a 'token woman' on the board?
Article 19/01/12 One woman on the board is a token, two is a minority; three means you are really getting there. We don’t want to be token woman…but what to you do if you realize you were only hired
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Article 16/01/12 Why is passion so important for leaders? Because it’s a lot easier to get people tot follow you when they believe in you en can share your enthusiasm.
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Article 06/01/12 Carla Smits-Nusteling maakte deze week bekend dat zij per 1 april 2012 opstapt als CFO van KPN, omdat ze zich volgens het persbericht ‘ uiteindelijk niet kan vinden in de wijze van b
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The Key to Gender Parity: It's the Culture, Stupid!
Article 19/12/11 As founder and publisher of theglasshammer.com, Nicki Gilmour thinks it is appropriate to celebrate it’s 2000th article with a look at what components could play a major role in helping a critic
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Article 29/11/11 When historians write about business in late 20th and early 21st century America, they will say it was a time of intense leadership scrutiny – not only of executives’ results but of how th
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Indrukwekkende CVs in Opzij Top-100
Article 31/10/11 Vorige week presenteerde Opzij de Top-100 van invloedrijke vrouwen in tien categorieën, variërend van sport en cultuur tot politiek en bedrijfsleven. Op de lijst komen bekende namen vo
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Female leaders share advice at Wall Street Conference
Article 25/10/11 Last week, Deutsche Bank hosted its 17th annual Women on Wall Street conference at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. The event drew over 2,000 people, mainly women in the financial services indus
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Etnische Zakenvrouw & Vrouwelijke Manager 2011 gekozen
Article 17/10/11 Op 8 oktober jl. is tijdens het gala diner van de Businessclub Etnische Zaken Vrouwen Nederland ( EZVN ) in het World Trade Center te Rotterdam Sherida Sumter, apotheker en eigenaar van Bu
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Voorbeelden van zelf-leiderschap
Article 10/10/11 Op 6 juni jl vond het LEAP New Leadership event bij KPN plaats. Een bijeenkomst rond het thema (persoonlijk) leiderschap, waar interessante discussies ontstonden. Ik sprak er later o
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Learning about effective leadership by rappelling waterfalls
Article 03/10/11 Are you a horizontal leader? Read Laura Berger’s interesting article on the parallels of waterfall rappelling and leadership and learn how to navigate the rock face of your career.
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Gender gap is bad for world economy says Clinton
Article 26/09/11 At the APEC summit in San Francisco this month, US secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on member nations to break down economic and social barriers for women. Women need access to capital, acces
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Servant leaders serve who? No one, themselves, as many as possible?
Article 17/09/11 The concept of servant leadership is quite popular and more and more peple describe themselves as servant leader. But Mitch Maidique, a professor of management at Florida International University, say
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Forbes says Lady Gaga is more powerful than Australia's prime minister.
Article 12/09/11 Always interesting to browse the Forbes list of 100 Most Powerful Women and silently applaud women – some of whom you’ve never heard of but - who are CEO’s of big companies or
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The surprising truth about what motivates us
Article 29/08/11 If you give people financial rewards for accomplishing tasks, it only works if the tasks are simple and fairly mechanical. If however the tasks get more complicated, financial rewards not only don&rsq
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How Transformational Leaders Manage a Really, Really Bad Day
Article 22/08/11 The stock market is a roller coaster. You find out you’re not going to hit the numbers for the quarter. More people you know are out of jobs. Congress can’t seem to agree on what they want
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Quotas: tokenism or necessary push to correct wrong views?
Article 16/08/11 According to a recent survey by executive recruiters Harvey Nash, 81% of women feel that bias in the appointment process has a major impact on female representation – but two-thirds (64%) do not
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Corporate Governance en Soft Controls: voorkom tunnelvisie en eilandgedrag
Article 01/08/11 Bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van Hoogleraar Corporate Governance aan de Nyenrode Business Universiteit, 8 juni j.l. sprak Mijntje Luckerath Rovers de verkorte versie uit van haar rede&
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What is thought leadership and how can companies pursue it?
Article 26/07/11 Many corporations feel that they should be developing a thought leadership strategy. Some – like Unilever and Philips - are quite successful at it. Some have no idea what thought le
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Effect van loopbaanonderbreking op salaris vrouwen
Article 18/07/11 Als je je loopbaan onderbreekt, bijvoorbeeld voor zwangerschapsverlof of een sabbatical, heeft dat een negatief effect op je salaris. Maar het effect is beperkt. Je geslacht, je opleidingsniveau, het
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Echt leiderschap vraagt grondige zelfkennis
Article 11/07/11 Het kind in de leider.. In elke volwassene schuilt een kind. Daarvan zijn verreweg de meeste mensen zich wel bewust. Vrijwel elke psycholoog houdt rekening met de invloed van jeugdervaringen op het la
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Why are we bad at picking good leaders?
Article 04/07/11 We complain about our leaders. So we eventually get rid of them and we move on to the next one with the hope that it will be different this time. But it’s not. And we’re back where we star
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Get your own personal leadership values report for free!
Article 19/06/11 The Australian based consultancy and coaching firm Values Grid invites you to explore your values and fully realise your leadership potential. It offers you, free of charge, your own personal v
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Peter Molengraaf, CEO Alliander: De wet van compassie
Article 06/06/11 De wet van compassie is een leidend principe in het leven van Peter Molengraaf, CEO van Alliander. Respect voor een ieder waarmee je een relatie hebt, of dat nu zakelijk of privé is, staa
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Jos Nijhuis, CEO Schiphol: Inspirerend en toegankelijk.
Article 30/05/11 Jos Nijhuis, president-directeur van Schiphol Group, heeft ‘inspirerend’ bovenaan zijn lijstje persoonlijke leiderschapswaarden staan. Inspirerend is ook een kernwoord voor het aantrekken
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Jeroen Maes is Waking up the Workplace
Article 23/05/11 Jeroen Maes is the panel moderator on our Event on June 6. Because he is committed to waking up the workplace. Why is he? And what does he do to realize this? Well, for a start he is co-founder of Rea
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Het nieuwe werken schreeuwt om nieuw leiderschap
Article 03/01/11 ‘It’s the economy, stupid’ luidde de befaamde kreet uit Bill Clinton’s verkiezingscampagne. Als het gaat om het nieuwe werken (HNW) is het credo eerder: ‘it’s the l
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43-Page Dress Code Warns Employees Not To Show Underwear
Article 03/01/11 UBS' 43-Page Dress Code Warns Employees Not To Show UnderwearIt took no fewer than 43 pages for the human resources department at the Swiss bank UBS AG to establish what bank pe
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Worstelen met de term leiderschap. Is een leider de baas?
Article 15/11/10 Bianca Heiszwolf was een van de discussieleiders tijdens de parallel sessie van LEAP! op het event van Talent naar de Top. Aan haar tafel ontspon zich een interessante discussie over de term ‘ni
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Liselore’s life and work with social media
Article 30/09/10 We all have new media and social media at our disposal. But how do they fit in the new way of working and communicating? IBM’s
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LEAP Connected Ambition Highlights
Article 17/09/10 The pictures said it all: the LEAP Connected Ambition Event –powered by IBM, was a dazzling success. Here are some of the hig
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Maaike Kamphuis on change through networks
Article 17/09/10 As old school processes diminish in importance within organisations, change in networks inevitably follows. IBM’s change consultant Maaike Kamphuis believes that by better understandi
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‘LEAP-women more social media savvy than organisation
Article 16/09/10 The results of the Social Media Profiler, a study to understand how women leaders use new ways of communicating and collaborating, reveal that while LEAP-women are pioneer users of social m
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Article 16/09/10 Earlier this year, Ann De Jaeger wrote ‘we need a distinctively different next generation business model if women
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‘Find your stakeholders and your enemies’
Article 09/09/10 New ways of communicating and collaborating challenge us to rethink the current ones. Liselore Ammerlaan-van Rijn, IBM&r
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“Allow yourself to float and experiment”
Article 06/07/10 We’re continuing the World Café debate at the LEAP Energy event online, and ask: how far are you in self-leadership and in your leadership journey? Corrine Petrus, senior manager
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Koen Gonnissen on effectiveness vs excellence
Article 25/06/10 “What results do you deliver when you work effectively?” Koen asked the audience of the LEAP Energy event at Ernst & Young’s. ‘Profit,’ answered someone.
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